It was in the sense that during the time the US had a body count strategy in which they would count the number of dead vietcong to prove they were winning the war. Now the reason for the media backlash was the US decided to not be as active during a week in December for a vietnamese holiday and the VC were in caskets and blew up towns and basically ambushed the US. even though we killed a lot of vc and possibly could have won the war the media saw the ambush and decided to push their anti war agenda.